hi Mike... you wrote: "What became Christianity would not have happened without Paul and Augustine, not that James version was Christianity, and probably ...
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Mar 3, 2005 1:27 pm
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Hello Tsharpmin7@... ... Basicallly the dark and pessamistic world view, of which original sin was his coup de ta (sp?). Negative ideas aout sex is...
thanks, Mike... maybe its the times and culture he was exposed to. i know very little about Augustine, but its not all that surprising to me that any man...
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Mar 3, 2005 7:31 pm
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hi PMCV... sorry for the late response, but here goes nothin'. ... it comes to such "foundings" other than simple claimsmanship: i.e., to my knowledge...
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Mar 4, 2005 12:55 am
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Hey Crispin.... ... legend than fact," the only reference i found was to later CHRISTIAN legends that exacerbate and/or distort his importance, not JEWISH...
Golly, that was long *lol*. I guess I should rest a bit here and let other people jump in. PMCV hi PMCV... yes, very long, and i've enjoyed every second....
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Mar 4, 2005 4:30 am
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... let ... hmmm..I will add something to this converstation, but it will have to wait until tomorrow, it is late and I have to get up early for work in the...
... If we're being honest here ... a good, fresh fig is hard to come by! As for Paul, I think you have echoed similar observations that we have made in the...
Hello pmcvflag ... Actually I have read somewhere that there are actual Manacheans still active in the Malabar part of India, original ones, not neos. How ...
... let ... Sure, Ill jump in ;) I was actually wrestling with the problems of Paul not long before this thread started. I think I mentioned it in my last...
As a correction to my last post, the Revised std edition does mention gamaliel and it agrees with the NIV version. I was using a bible/version search and got a...
Hi elmoreb The Revised English Bible - OUP 1989 - (a revision of The New English Bible) is the latest and possibly the most authoritative version of the Bible...
Hi All! I am reading Gnosticism: Beliefs and Practices, by JG Harris, Sussex Academic Press 1999. Returning to the original topic 'Gnostic claims to Paul of...
Hey Mike Well, I was aware that Malabar was one of the later outposts, but last I heard it was still around the 1500s when they were last spotted there. If you...
Hello pmcvflag ... I wish I could, but some guy at church was talking about a journal article he had read, and I was not part of the conversation. My older...
hi Mike/PMCV... it just so happens, in today's "Did you know..." section of their home page (they post some of their newest articles there), Wikipedia presents...
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Mar 6, 2005 2:14 pm
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Hi All! Is there a place for the Theory of evolution in Gnosticism? Gich...
... Hello, Gich. I just did a search on the group message board search engine and found a thread from about 2 ½ years ago touching on "evolution." With all...
Thomas, thank you for all your research. I look forward to reading your information. Also, I'll correct and repost the first and last links from your reply...
Thanks Cari! I've looked at some of the old thread you mention but can't find a straightforward answer to my question: Is there a place for the Theory of...
hi gich... i'd say maybe there's a place. how noncommittal is that? but i'm not sure what you mean, "is there a place?" are you asking if, like Rumi,...
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Mar 6, 2005 9:48 pm
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Hi Gich; I asked my inner being, my God Self within me, whom I call High Self, and the answer was,"YES", to your question... The Gnostic Gospels were not meant...
Hi Cary; You wrote; "It sometimes can be excruciating reading old stuff we wrote.LOL ;-)" In looking back on some of the old stuff I have written in times ...
I've had some questions of my own lately concerning variations in the translations of biblical passages. Anyone familiar with The Complete Gospels (Robert J....
too funny, Gerry... just keep switching euphemisms and it gets even funnier. my wife prefers inserting "morning wood." in the verse that is. Crispin Sainte...
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Mar 7, 2005 3:53 am
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Hi Crispin. You write 'if you're asking whether or not a contemporary Gnostic can find "a place for the Theory of evolution," then i would say absolutely...
hi Gich... You wrote: Hi Crispin. You write 'if you're asking whether or not a contemporary Gnostic can find "a place for the Theory of evolution," then i...
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Mar 7, 2005 7:15 pm
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In my ventures, I have only read a little Darwin, but if I remember correctly he did not completely trace the theory of evolution from apes to humans. In...
